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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

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Hello everybody, I'm the dude who put all the crystal balls in. There was an error with my crystal ball where I couldn't make or change predictions for a while (hence the horrible avg correct) and I just got around to updating my predictions. It's not like one thing suddenly caused me to make these choices or anything like that.

Just to clarify, the reason the Michigan coaches are ranked so low is because over a third of their commits had Jerry Montgomery as their primary recruiter which really hurt their numbers. Here's a breakdown of which coaches were given credit for each commit:

ACT scores are usually the average of four subscores on the test. Some people don’t take the average of these scores, but rather just add them all up. While it’s not commonplace to do this, I’ve seen NCAA eligibility charts that look at the added, not average, ACT scores. That is likely the reason for the 75, which is actually a 19.

Thanks for the kind words, I will also be moving over to 247 sports with Steve as well. As some of you may remember, I started writing about recruiting here and there is no way I would be where I am today without this amazing site.

He plays safety on defense and told me he hasn't heard much from Michigan in a while, but he is one of those guys that Michigan could start recruiting the night of National Signing Day and still land him.

Ive talked to both of them quite a bit and neither seemed worried about it. When I talked to Chance about if he was worried about competition from Shane he said "Not at all. He's a great qb but I like to think I am one too. It's just competition. Which im completely fine with."

I was talking to Donnal a few weeks ago and he told me that Dave Telep loved his game and how he fits perfectly in Dan Dockich's (Marks AAU coach) system. So that could have been a factor in the high ranking

From what Malik has told me, I have to believe that Michigan is his leader by a lot. I wouldn't get too worried about LSU and Bama, he just likes the top teams and as long as Michigan continues to be a BCS caliber team they should be in good shape.

I've only been able to get ahold of Johnny Miggins (2014 Cass Tech DB) today and he didn't really give me anything earth shattering about the visit. He did mention that Devin looked really good at WR, he was the #3 WR FWIW.

Michigan inivited all the Cass Tech kids back this weekend, I'm guessing it's because last weekend the coaches were too busy to really talk to them. So far the Cass Tech visitor list is:
Jayru Campbell-visiting Saturday
Johnny Miggins-Saturday
Damon Webb-Saturday and both his parents are coming with him

Will White, Deon Drake, and Gary Hosey are all visiting Wisconsin this week and as of right now will not make it.

I always liked the Gunner Kiel story. He started out as a hometown hero who people praised for choosing to try to save Indiana football. Then he became a villian selling out for one of the top programs in the country. Then bailing on LSU the last minute and showing up at ND where he will most likely fail.

Yep, in my introduction series I've talked to the top 2 sophomores in Detroit and the top sophomore in toledo and they all are big Michigan fans. It will be hard for any other school to beat Michigan for them.

Tunsil is very high on Michigan. And he told Aquaman that Michigan is in his top five. But Tunsil won't be able to pay his way to Michigan for an unofficial so we have to wait until his official causing the Michigan buzz around him to be low for now.

When I talked to DeNiro Laster (2013 recruit from Cleveland) he talked about how much Frank Clark made people in the Cleveland area proud. I definitely think that the success Hoke is having in the Cleveland area recruiting wise is huge for the future.

The farthest you should go (without him [im assuming it's a guy] asking for your opinion) is just a "Go blue" I've seen lots of prospects talk about how they loved having fans say "go blue" to them. It makes them feel important without feeling uncomfortable.

I'd look for the coaches to be more involved in the south next year. Peter Kalambai out of NC has Michigan in his top five, Shaq Wiggins out of Georgia has them in his top three, and Laremy Tunsil out of Florida has them in his top five. Shaq and Peter are both four stars, while Laremy is a five star.

I have no inside info and I am not trying to re kindle this love affair, but it will be interesting what michigan does if they have a spot left after signing day and Stefon Diggs hasn't committed anywhere. I dont think they will pursue him, but you never know.

It seems like Diamond's plan all along was to wait untill late in the process to commit, but Logan has said that he wants to announce on his birthday (March I believe). They both also seem to have very different personalities, Logan is driven to succeed and he won't wait around if he knows he found the right fit.

As someone who works with Aquaman, I know that he does not stalk the recruits. He politely asks a kid for an interview and if they decline or don't respond then he will respect that and let it go. And it's not like these are kids, most of them are 18 or older (aka adults).

I understand that this was a joke, but what is scary for ND is that he was still considered to be better than their other corners. They will have to rely heavily on either Tee Shepherd or Ronald Darby to be their corner next year. What's even better is that they are both soft commits to ND and are seriously considering other schools.

Now: Garnett says Michigan is his slight leader
1. Garnett takes his Stanford visit and is impressed but not blown away. In interviews he lists Stanford with as his slight leader or tied with Michigan
2. As the initial reaction of the Stanford visit fades and Garnett analyzes his option he sees that his future may be brighter at Michigan.
3. Brady Hoke uses his in home visit with Garnett an reminds him of why he listed Michigan as his leader in the first place.
4. Profit

Erik Magnuson did an interview for us over at Tremendous and Erik said that from talking to Garnett, he thinks Michigan's chances of landing him are very high. The interview isn't up yet, but I talked about it in yesterdays a few minor recruiting notes.

College Football is a very profitable business, it's just that the money is going to the wrong places. People also forget that college sports are great advertising tools for a university. I know plenty of people who decided between two colleges based off of the success of their football or basketball program.

In the last three years, rivals has only had one QB in their top ten and that person was 10th so they don't like rating QBs very high. But Josh Helmdolt seems to really like him, so he could have a positive effect on Shane's rating. In the end I'll say yes, just because Shane is awesome and rivals loves pro potential which he has.

I talked to Greg Biggins on twitter (the guy who broke this commitment) and this is what he said.
Me: “@GregBiggins: #Stanford lands elite MW offensive lineman, story on the way” could be good news for Michigan and Garnett, we will see.
Him:@Mgobluegr
I don't think this commitment has anything to do with what Josh is doing, UM and ND def have a shot but not because of Davidson
Me:@GregBiggins Does Stanford still have room if Kyle Murphy commits?
Him:@Mgobluegr
They're holding a spot for Murphy, Garnett and Peat, wouldn't turn down any of them

I just watched his film and he looked like he was defiantly the top defender on De la Salle. He plays physical and he likes to hit.
His 40 is 4.5
GPA is 4.1
ACT is 32
And he had 20 tackles and three Ints in his first three games this year.

Ya my bad, poor phrasing. I meant committed. If the sanctions are moderately bad, then it will be easier to keep people already committed rather than trying to get someone to commit. Decommiting is a stressful process and some guys would rather just sticking it out, so they don't have to worry about starting a controversy.

I was there when Cincy played Florida. New Years was absolutely crazy, it just sucked that I was underage. You'll be lucky you have a couple days to recover from the inevitable hangover in time for the game.

What's great is that we have plenty of recruits left on the board that could get in the two or three deep as true freshmen. Dunn, Garnett, Diggs, and wright could all get significant playing time next year.

To actually answer your question. Most of the buildings are relatively new. The campus is pretty low key. They are the shit at football. It's only a short drive to some nice beaches on Lake Michigan. Allendale is a boring ass town. And the campus itself is quite large for a D 2 school.

Either Wisconsin or MSU will fall below or stay below (Wiscy) Michigan(if they win) after this week of the BTCG. Georgia will fall back if the lose the SEC championship. The loser of the OK v OK state game could fall behind Michigan. And there are still plenty of upsets to be had in the next two weeks.

It's almost a given that the Sec gets two teams (the max) and a non AQ gets a bid. This leaves two at large bids. It will be between Stanford, Ok state v Oklahoma loser, the Acc champ loser, and a two loss big ten team. Stanford losing to ND, Clemson losing to south Carolina and in the Acc championship, and OK state losing again should put Michigan in if they win out.

As disgusting as it is to hear this, I feel like this is a positive from the Sandusky scandal. Hopefully people who were being molested will have more confidence to come forward and help stop these sick men. Preventing future incidents.

It's amazing to think that he is doing this with primarily three star recruits from another system. It's going to be fun to see what he does with all these four stars that are recruited for his system.

I know some people will probobly get upset about this, but I think MSU keeps it close and has a chance to win in the last minute. This game is under such odd circumstances that it will neutralize UNCs superior talent.

I agree that the smart money is on Paterno leaving this week. But this article did not give me anymore confidence. Chatsports just breaks news by taking pretty obvious information then guessing a detail about it but saying they got it from an inside source. All in a ploy to gain more page views as a "news breaker" Thursday is a smart choice because if it is announced wendsday they can say the story just came out a little early. If it is announced Thursday, then they heroically broke the news accurately. And if it announced Friday they can just say the announcement had to be delayed a little bit.

There is no limit to how many threads should be made to revel what a sick asshole he was. I hope people read all these threads to realize how bad this situation is. And if just one person who reads this blog knows about a child molester and gets enough courage to report that person, then all of these threads will be more than worth it.

I believe players have to complete at least one semester of classes before their transfer can affect the APR score, with Brown, Posada, and Jones all transferring before that deadline Michigan shouldn't be hit very hard in the APR.

He is good friends with Jordan Payton, which seems to have generated his interest in Michigan. If Jordan commits I think we have a relatively good shot if the visit goes well. And I heard the coaches are looking for an elite athlete that could play multiple positions, and he is that guy.

The only one I can think of was William Mahone's visit to Penn State. " Mahone’s trip to State College last weekend to watch the Nittany Lions play Alabama did not go well. He apparently arrived late to the game, as planned, but told Scout.com that he did not talk to any Penn State coaches and was pretty much ignored. "

I looked up his track numbers and he is one of the fasted hurdlers in the country. I found one of his times was 13.80 seconds. For perspective the eighth place runner in the 2008 Olympic finals ran a 13.69.

Allen Trieu said that he is really talented but teams just don't know where to play him.